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TX Arrests Illegal Aliens for Trespassing

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—A group of 50 Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives is urging the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to investigate Operation Lone Star, a border security initiative launched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in March 2021.
“Operation Lone Star uses state criminal law to target Black and Latino migrants for punishment,” the Democrats’ Jan. 26 letter to the federal agencies alleges.
The politicians want the federal government to ​​use “all tools at your disposal to ensure the end of this policy.”
In June 2021, as part of Operation Lone Star (OLS), Abbott authorized Texas Department of Public Safety troops to arrest and charge illegal immigrants with trespassing if they were found to be on state or private land without consent.
The OLS budget funded jail space for alleged illegal immigrant trespassers, defense counsel, and prosecution resources. The governor also sent more law enforcement officers to beleaguered border regions to assist in the arrest of t …

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National debt hits all-time high

Author of ‘Woke, Inc.’ Vivek Ramaswamy on Jack Dorsey stepping down and what this means for the future of Twitter. The U.S. national debt has surpassed $30 trillion according to the latest data released by the Treasury Department, marking a new milestone as government spending and borrowing continues to surge. The dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite / AP Newsroom)The new record is for the government’s total debt outstanding, which includes $23.487 trillion in debt held by the public and another $6.525 trillion in intra-government debt such as federal trust funds and other accounts.Spending by Congress was already increasing at a steady clip for years before the coronavirus sparked a borrowing surge of $5 trillion in pandemic relief that exacerbated the rate. “$30 trillion in debt is an obscene number, but what’s even more depressing is the fact that most politicians in both parties don’t really care,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R‑Neb., said in a statement on the milestone. “Someone is going to have to pay that money when these politicians are long gone, and — spoiler alert — it won’t be paid by them but instead by our kids.”“Ignoring the debt won’t solve the crisis, it will only make things worse,” Sasse added. “We need to cut the budget-busting spending sprees and do real entitlement reform.” This story is developing and will be updated. …

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Democrats Lose Another State As Another Officially Becomes Red

Democrats just got more bad news as they head into the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential elections.

The Republican Party has taken the edge and made Florida a strong red state, which could have devastating consequences for Democrats.

Voter registration data collected by the state and shared with POLITICO shows that there are now 6,035 more voters registered as Republicans than Democrats out of 14.3 million active registered voters. Each party has more than 5.1 million voters.

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Biden Administration Sued Over Corruption Scandal

More than a year after its competitor reported on alleged corrupt ties between Hunter Biden and foreign entities and governments, The New York Times is jumping on the bandwagon.

The paper has filed suit against the State Department to obtain emails related to the president’s son in a probe to determine whether there is any undue foreign influence on President Joe Biden.

“The New York Times has sued the State Department for allegedly dragging its feet in handing over emails from Romanian embassy officials connected to Hunter Biden and his famed former business associate Tony Bobulinski,” the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.

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